APPENDICES, 



APPENDIX I, 



A GLOSSARY OF SOME OF THE PROVINCIALISMS USED IN 

 THE NEW FOREST. 



I COULD easily have expanded the following glossary to three times its 

 size, but my object is to give only some specimens of those words which 

 have not yet found their way into, or have not been fully explained 

 in Mr. Halliwell's or Mr. Wright's dictionaries of provincialisms. The 

 following collection is, I believe, the first ever made of the New Forest, 

 or even, with the exception of the scanty list in Warner,* of Hamp- 

 shire provincialisms, which of course to a certain extent it represents, 

 more especially those of the western part of the county. A separate 

 work, however, would be needed to give the whole collection, and the 

 following examples must here suffice. 



Of course I do not say that all these words are to be found only 

 in the New Forest. Many of them will doubtless be elsewhere dis- 

 covered, though they hitherto, as here, have escaped notice. The 

 time, however, for assigning the limits of our various provincialisms 

 and provincial dialects has not yet arrived. 



* Collections for the History of Hampshire, by Richard Warner, vol. iii., 

 pp. 37, 38. A brief list of Hampshire words will also be found in Notes and 

 Queries, First Series, vol. x., No. 250, p. 120. Mr. Halliwcll, in his account ot 

 the English Provincial Dialects, p. xx., prefixed to his Dictionary of Archaic and 

 Provincial Words, mentions a MS. glossary of the provincialisms of the Isle of 

 Wight, by Captain Henry Smith of which he has made use. 



279 



